Automobile-truck.



HQ L. PARRISH.

AUTOMOBILE TRUGK.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 9, 190s.

Patented Oct. 3, 1911 naar HERBERT L. PARRISH, OF BENTON HARBOR,MICHIGAN.

AUTOMOBILETRUCK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 3, 1911.

Application led March 9, 1908. Serial No. 419,966.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it lrnown that l, HERBERT L. PAiunsH, citizen of the United States,residing at Benton Harbor, in the county of Berrien and State oflt/fichigan, have invented a certain new and useful lmprovement in Automobile-Trucks, of which the following is a full, clear, concise, andexact description.

My invention relates to a seat for an automobile truck. lts object is toprovide a tilting` or folding seat (and preferably also a foldingfoot-rest associated therewith), so that the driver may sit at eitherend of the vehicle to control it, leaving the seat at the other endtilted out of the way.

l will describe my invention in detail by reference to the accompanyingdrawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of one of theduplicate equipments of steering and controlling apparatus, with thefolding seat and foot-rest associated therewith; and Fig. 2 is a detailfronteend view of the seat and foot-rest, tilted or folded so as to lieedgewise at the side of the truck body.

The same reference characters indicato the same parts wherever they areshown.

The steering` mechanism may be operated by a hand wheel 26 mounted upona steering post immediately behind each steering post is a seat 2S whichis mounted in such a way as to tilt or fold edgewise at the side of thetruck when not in use. Tn the vehicle shown each seat is pivoted atitsupper outside edge to upright supports or standards 29, 30, which aremounted near the side edge of the truck body. These supports arepreferably provided with brackets at their upper ends, upon which theseat may rest; and the seat may further be supported by legs 31, 31,hinged at their upper ends to the under side of the seatbottom, thelower ends of said legs being pivoted to a cross brace 32 which isarranged to slide vertically in the upright standards 29 and 30. Thestandard 29 is a steel bar, tal-shaped in cross section; and thestandard 30 is a steel channel-bar. The channels in these standards formslide-ways in which rises through the sloping portion 34 of thefoot-rest, and two pedal levers are also shown rising through saidsloping portion 34. One of these pedals 36 may control the clutch, andthe other pedal 37 may control the brake. An interlocking arrangementfor the pedals may be provided, whereby the brake pedal when depressedcarries the clutch pedal down with it to throw off the clutch when thebrake is applied. This presupposes the usual arrangement in which duringthe ruiming of the vehicle the clutch is thrown on by allowing theclutch pedal to rise.

The pedals 36 and 37 are shown to be pivoted upon a bracket 43 which ismounted upon an upright brace 44, which assists in supporting thefoot-rest.

ln order to permit the foot-rest to fold up, the sloping portion 34(which is slotted to allow for the pedals and steering post) may beremovable from the side support-s 33, 38, which are hinged at 39, 39, tothe forward edge of the floor portion 33. Said hinged supports 33 haverearward exten sions 40 which come against the under side of the floorport-ion 33, to brace said supports when the latter are in their open orextended position. A brace 70 normally supports one side or end of thefloor 33, while the eX- tended end is supported by legs or links 42, 42,which are pivoted to the under side thereof and also pivoted to thefloor of the truck. The floor portion 33 of the foot-rest also carries alug 41 which is adapted to slide in the front channel of the tal-shapedseat-supporting upright 29.

lln folding the foot-rest, the sloping floor portion 34 is first removedfrom the hinged supports 33, and said support-s are then folded towardthe rear, the floor portion 33 being also lifted up so that its lug 41slides up in the channel of upright 29, the legs 42 swinging upwardlyupon their pivoted lower ends, until the whole structure lies edgewisealong the side of the truck, as shown in Fig Q..

The removable portion 34 of the foot-rest may be used in the foot-restframe at either end of the vehicle as desired. The hand steering wheelmay also be adapted for re movable attachment to either steering post,so that while the set of controlling apparatus at one end of the truckis in use the set at the other end is thus partially dismantled, and theremaining parts thereof are so folded or tilted to one side that theytake up the minimumV amount of space.

Y at the side of the seat upon the upright 29.

At one end of the vehicle the lever 54 is the forward lever and lever 55is for reversing while at the opposite end of the vehicle the lever 55is the forward lever and lever 54 the reverse lever. The levers arepreferably so positioned normally that the one used as a forward leveris more conveniently placed under the hand of the operator. When one setof hand levers 54 and 55 is in use at one end of the vehicle, thecorresponding set at the other end may be thrown out of service bydisconnecting their linlrs from the bell-crank levers which theyoperate. The links will then hang loosely from said hand levers, so thatthe operation of the set which is in service will not affect the idleset.

I claim:

l. In an automobile truck, the combination with a floor body, of a seatand foot rest, and supports therefor rising from v said floor body atthe lateral edge thereof,

said supports being adapted to permit said seat and foot-rest to betilted independently into edgewise positions at the side of the truck,when not in use.

2. An automobile truck having a floor body, vertical supports risingfrom said floor body in a row along the side thereof, a seat andfoot-rest mounted upon said vertical supports so as to swing verticallyinto edgewise posit-ions when not in use.

In witness whereof I hereunto subscribe my name this 12th day ofFebruary, A. D., 1908.y

HERBERT L. PARRI SH.

Witnesses D. C. TANNER, A. H. MOORE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained forrve cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

